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Oahu residents assess damages from heavy rainfall, flooding

By Cindy Ellen Russell

Dec. 7, 2021

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A Honolulu Police Department officer directed traffic at Alakea and South Beretania Streets during a power outage in downtown on Tuesday morning.
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Two keawe trees and a palm tree toppled over due to Monday's heavy rains at the entrance of Kalani High School. State facilities workers removed the trees on Tuesday.
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State contracted workers removed a 60-foot keawe tree which toppled over at Farrington High School due to Monday's heavy rains. School was canceled on Tuesday due to the incident.
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State contracted workers removed a 60-foot keawe tree which toppled over at Farrington High School due to Monday's heavy rains. School was canceled on Tuesday due to the incident.
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Workers cleared debris on Noelani Street in Pearl City after the neighborhood was inundated with flood waters multiple times during the torrential downpour of rain throughout Monday.
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Chandra Sugitaya held a photo album which survived the multiple flooding events her Noelani Street home in Pearl City experienced on Monday.
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Chandra Sugitaya surveyed her kitchen after multiple flooding events on Monday inundated her family's Noelani Street home in Pearl City. Sugitaya estimates that her three-bedroom home of 37 years flooded four separate times, within 6 to 8 hours, due to a storm drain which kept getting clogged despite ongoing attempts to clear it.
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Reyn Sugitaya washed off the mud where multiple flooding events on Monday inundated his parent's Noelani Street home in Pearl City. Sugitaya's mother, Chandra, estimates that her three-bedroom home of 37 years flooded four separate times, within 6 to 8 hours, due to a storm drain which kept getting clogged despite ongoing attempts to clear it.
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Al Sugitaya extracted a neighbor's trash can which wedged between his fence and storage shed. which also floated into the yard, after a series of floods in his neighborhood.
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Three hybrid electric vehicles had their doors open to dry out their interiors after torrential rains on Monday flooded Nanakai Place in Pearl City.
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Shaney Hoyhoy lifted a piece of plywood off a downed fence at her Nanakai Place home after heavy rains flooded her Pearl City neighborhood on Monday.
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Shaney Hoyhoy picked through debris by a downed fence at her Nanakai Place home after heavy rains flooded her Pearl City neighborhood on Monday.
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State contracted workers removed a 60-foot keawe tree which toppled over at Farrington High School due to Monday's heavy rains. School was canceled on Tuesday due to the incident.
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Workers removed carpet from a room at Pearl City Highlands Elementary School which experienced a flash flood on Monday afternoon. All the students and staff were evacuated safely.
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Pearl City Highlands Elementary School was inundated by a flash flood on Monday. All the students and staff were evacuated safely. Pictured is the speech therapy services classroom on Tuesday.
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Kristie Mendiola carries debris while cleaning up her Noelani Street home in Pearl City which got flooded from Monday's heavy rains. At least six homes on Noelani Street were inundated by flood waters multiple times throughout the day and evening.

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